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- Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Customer for BFR
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8450
Customer for BFR
here's the perfect customer for BFR's http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027681/Pictured-The-state-art-luxuries-aboard-worlds-largest-cruise-ship.html Right now this ship just became a huge white elephant due to its size and the amount of fuel its powerplant will use. With BFR's thats not a pr...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:49 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Effects of high energy alpha on materials
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17417
You are in the molecular flow region. There are some tricks you can play around with to ensure that alpha particles only go in the directions you want and eliminate backscatter and sputtering. For instance you could make the grids as bank of short thin walled tubes. or layered sheet metal grids. If ...
- Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:06 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A product definately NOT needed on a polywell
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3508
A product definately NOT needed on a polywell
$500 cat 5 ethernet cables.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1 ... roduct_top
If we really need shielded cables I can do much better, cheaper. No I will not cut a new orifice with a rusty box cutter.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1 ... roduct_top
If we really need shielded cables I can do much better, cheaper. No I will not cut a new orifice with a rusty box cutter.
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ITER May Be Delayed Up To Three Years
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6407
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:14 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ITER May Be Delayed Up To Three Years
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6407
Simon I am reposting the comment I made on your blog a while back: A long time ago now I worked at DOE's Jefferson lab down in VA. One of the cool things they had there was a series of speakers come in every month or so. One of the speakers was the head of Plasma Physics at Princeton(the Tokamak peo...
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:15 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Wall Street Journal on Liberman warner and my letter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7244
Sen Inhofe agrees with me:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1212449 ... torialPage
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1212449 ... torialPage
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:14 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Wall Street Journal on Liberman warner and my letter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7244
I especially liked: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/numerical_models_integrated_ci.html Which hints at the troubles with modeling a BFR. Our process and reactor is simpler than CVD except for one curve ball (truly). Magnetic fields. In the current effort we are severely hampered by a lack of...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Wall Street Journal on Liberman warner and my letter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7244
Wall Street Journal on Liberman warner and my letter
The Wall Street Journal editorial http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121236237789236363.html?mod=djemEditorialPage Sen. Lieberman is my senator and this is letter I sent him: Dear Senator Lieberman The Lieberman Warner bill cap and trade bill represent an enormous burden on the taxpayers and poor of Co...
- Sat May 31, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: DOE Labs in Crisis?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3026
DOE Labs in Crisis?
I just was this post on a blog about how some generous benefactor gave Fermilab 5 million, not for some program or new experiment, but for the general operating budget. Have we gotten so poor that we can no longer get basic funding for stuff like this: http://depletedcranium.com/?p=626 How many earm...
- Sat May 31, 2008 2:40 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Robert Hirsch On Gas Prices
- Replies: 46
- Views: 28501
- Thu May 29, 2008 10:21 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Robert Hirsch On Gas Prices
- Replies: 46
- Views: 28501
i have lived near the sea for my entire life. I have lived on Long Island Sound for a good part of that. I occasionally see the sea wall behind the house I grew up in. Living in that house for almost thirty years I know where the high tide line is. I have photographs dating back to the early part of...
- Wed May 28, 2008 5:06 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: This Just came in my E-mail from MDC today
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3414
This Just came in my E-mail from MDC today
USB feedthroughs
http://www.insulatorseal.com/urd/unifac ... ay?1.6.1.1
And vacuum cable. Bakeable to 160C
http://www.insulatorseal.com/urd/unifac ... ay?1.6.1.1
And vacuum cable. Bakeable to 160C
- Wed May 28, 2008 3:52 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Large Vacuum Vessel Cost Estimator
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2815
a polywell chamber will be much simpler because the magnets and the guts can all be mounted on flanges and the rest can be mounted on standard feedthroughs. That Tokamak design looked overly complicated and had, tom my min way to many joints and flange surfaces along with water where I would not wan...
- Wed May 28, 2008 3:42 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: High Voltage Safety Guidlines
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4258
The biggest problem with any safety system is people getting too familiar with it. Never be in a hurry. It's a sure way to die. Way too many people who should have known better have been fried by bypassing safety interlocks for "one more quick test". Even dinking around in your basement or garage. ...
- Tue May 27, 2008 6:50 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: High Voltage Safety Guidlines
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4258
Re: High Voltage Safety Guidlines
* http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/user-advis/05-elec_safe_guides.html * This is for up to 15 KV, but it is a start. Very good stuff. I've used feedthroughs from all of the companies mentioned and they are very reliable. They did not mention instituting lockdown tag on procedures for all high voltage and...